We don't really have a "gamedeals" forum, but this one is a bit too good for me to not share everywhere. This is a truly ludicrous amount of games and DLC for the price. My personal highlights...
We don't really have a "gamedeals" forum, but this one is a bit too good for me to not share everywhere. This is a truly ludicrous amount of games and DLC for the price. My personal highlights are:
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider (2013)
Sleeping Dogs
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deux Ex: Mankind Divided
Thief (the new one)
Daikatana (lol)
Also, if you own any of these already, you don't have to pay for them again. You can complete the bundle and only pay for what you don't own.
Also Square-Enix is donating their revenue from this:
Also Square-Enix is donating their revenue from this:
As part of the initiative, we’re releasing Steam bundles featuring many of our greatest games at bargain prices. A full 100% of the Square Enix revenue from these bundles will to be distributed to charities across North America and Europe, including food banks and more.
The last time I tried to play the Steam release of Deus Ex, it was a living nightmare of crashing. Have they patched it for usability in the last few years?
The last time I tried to play the Steam release of Deus Ex, it was a living nightmare of crashing. Have they patched it for usability in the last few years?
Unless Steam changed something in the past year for it, I'd say that it's pretty accurate. "Use Kentie's launcher" is pretty much the goto tldr advice for Deus Ex on modern systems, be it from CD,...
Can't vouch for the accuracy though.
Unless Steam changed something in the past year for it, I'd say that it's pretty accurate. "Use Kentie's launcher" is pretty much the goto tldr advice for Deus Ex on modern systems, be it from CD, Steam, or GOG.
The one thing I disagree with in the guide is "Use single CPU: Recommended to leave disabled." Some odd things may happen if DX is given multiple cores, due to it being released when multicore systems were almost a decade away. Sometimes multicore works, sometimes it doesn't, but with modern systems, a single core's speed kind of offsets that, so it's easier to just limit it to a single core and save yourself possible future hassle.
That, I find, is often the problem. There's always a lot of solutions guides out there, but games rarely actually bother telling you what the errors actually are, which makes those guides fairly...
Can't vouch for the accuracy though
That, I find, is often the problem. There's always a lot of solutions guides out there, but games rarely actually bother telling you what the errors actually are, which makes those guides fairly useless.
And personally speaking, I would rather pay a little more for a GOG edition where the compatibility problems have already been fixed. In fact, I may have already done this for the game in question....
The PC Gaming Wiki is really the place to go to make any PC game work, to the point that I always visit a game's page before I boot it up for the first time since installation (or reinstallation)...
The PC Gaming Wiki is really the place to go to make any PC game work, to the point that I always visit a game's page before I boot it up for the first time since installation (or reinstallation) even if it's a modern title that just released with full AAA polish. I've found out about all kinds of amazing community fixes and improvements through this, and have only ever run into one game out of 1500+ that still refuses to work on my PC despite it (Condemned: Criminal Origins). A lot of GOG's pre-packaged fixes are the same as what you'd find on the PCGW page for the game.
In Deux Ex's case specifically, PCGW pointed me to this DX10 renderer (that also works with some other games of that era) and I've never had any problems with Deus Ex with it.
We don't really have a "gamedeals" forum, but this one is a bit too good for me to not share everywhere. This is a truly ludicrous amount of games and DLC for the price. My personal highlights are:
Also, if you own any of these already, you don't have to pay for them again. You can complete the bundle and only pay for what you don't own.
Also Square-Enix is donating their revenue from this:
The last time I tried to play the Steam release of Deus Ex, it was a living nightmare of crashing. Have they patched it for usability in the last few years?
No, I don't think they have. Good news is that older games generally have a "how to play this on modern systems" guide, and DX has one here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144316078
Can't vouch for the accuracy though.
Unless Steam changed something in the past year for it, I'd say that it's pretty accurate. "Use Kentie's launcher" is pretty much the goto tldr advice for Deus Ex on modern systems, be it from CD, Steam, or GOG.
The one thing I disagree with in the guide is "Use single CPU: Recommended to leave disabled." Some odd things may happen if DX is given multiple cores, due to it being released when multicore systems were almost a decade away. Sometimes multicore works, sometimes it doesn't, but with modern systems, a single core's speed kind of offsets that, so it's easier to just limit it to a single core and save yourself possible future hassle.
That, I find, is often the problem. There's always a lot of solutions guides out there, but games rarely actually bother telling you what the errors actually are, which makes those guides fairly useless.
And personally speaking, I would rather pay a little more for a GOG edition where the compatibility problems have already been fixed. In fact, I may have already done this for the game in question....
The PC Gaming Wiki is really the place to go to make any PC game work, to the point that I always visit a game's page before I boot it up for the first time since installation (or reinstallation) even if it's a modern title that just released with full AAA polish. I've found out about all kinds of amazing community fixes and improvements through this, and have only ever run into one game out of 1500+ that still refuses to work on my PC despite it (Condemned: Criminal Origins). A lot of GOG's pre-packaged fixes are the same as what you'd find on the PCGW page for the game.
In Deux Ex's case specifically, PCGW pointed me to this DX10 renderer (that also works with some other games of that era) and I've never had any problems with Deus Ex with it.
https://psprices.com/ is great for consoles.